$3.1 million in debt, Orange County to consider new list of cost-saving measures

One thing always on the mind of Orange County Commissioner Jody Crump is the county's $3.1 million deficit.

"We need some help... we have to be diligent about every dollar... every employee," Crump told 12News Thursday.

At Monday's Commissioner's Court meeting, Crump presented a list of proposed budgetary cost saving measures. The list of 19 various proposals includes some of Crump's own ideas as well as suggestions he gathered from the community and county employees.

"What we're trying to do is reduce expenditures as much as we can," said Crump.

Some of the proposed ideas include:

-Consolidate mail room clerk and switchboard operator

-Reduce notaries to one per department

-Consolidate copiers to one area per building

-Contract court reporter services

-Restructure cell phone program (Crump says hundreds of employees are provided work phones paid for by the county. If that program was eliminated, Crump says county employees would use their own phones and be subsidized).